Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.